Lords of Creation 12 (OOC)

[Mik_Hael]

So Zale, go ahead on the horrible abomination which should never have been brought forth into the mind of man, or do you want to do it?

actually I'll start writing it now...and if I am writing it, I'm moving the evaporation of the cube to the end of that post.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

What cube?

[Zaleramancer]

Would you like to write it?

[Mik_Hael]

Not sure if you can do that to holes in space, but hold onto that post you just posted a bit longer. you see, I've got a big nasty he can fight in the works that's about to climb through, and if you hold onto that post until just after it claws its way into the world, then it'll be a more interesting reaction if that's the first thing he sees don't you think?

[Zaleramancer]

I don't know.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Maybe you have the post formatted in HTML format? That messes up posts for me.

[Mik_Hael]

I'm a bit eager to, I haven't written creepy horror before so I'll give it a shot, if it's no good you can do a rehash.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Not really, since its kinda silly to just have Aox sitting there being dazed for that long. Don't cha think?

[Mik_Hael]

Well considering the fight took a maximum of 45 seconds to 1.25, and do you have to break out of it, it was set to evaporate the second the monsterking died.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

If I don't have Aox react to it and it just fades away it'll be like you just skipped over Aox being there entirely. He was dazed before everything happened and you want all the stuff to happened before he recovers and can react to it.

It's like *blink* everything changed! He won't even have known that the portal cage was there and it would completely defeat the purpose of it.

[Zaleramancer]

I was worried about that.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I'm just saying. It seems like a waste of a perfectly good plot device.

[Mik_Hael]

Aox can react to them, but he'd just be trapped inside, it's a tactic ethat I thought up specifically to keep him busy for a short period.

You see the trap works by creating a cube formed from six potals that all lead back to the opposite side of the cube's interior, creating a perfect seal. Any attempt to exit the cube or attack the cube will result in the attack simply being transported back into the center. However, such a thing can't be used in battle in this game because of a few major flaws.

The first being it takes to long to set  up and the target could easily move out of the way while it is being created, so they would have to be either dazed or paralyzed momentarily.

the second which is perhaps even larger than the first, is that even when the trap is finished all a god would have to do is enter their own personal realm, and create another portal leading just outside of the cube.

So all in all this technique could only work on Aox, and most likely only once.

I'm not entirely sure if the portals can be torn apart with a show of force either, considering that unlike stargates or the like, they aren't being maintained via an outside sorce, but are instead simply holes generated in the fabric of the space time continuum itself, so there's nothing really there to destroy or destabalize, but it's up to zale for the final say so in that respect.

Either way if you let him struggle in it a bit you'll end up with him coming face to face with a monster twice the size of the planet emerging from a vortex leading into the depths of Hell.

[Mik_Hael]

having you're character react would have resulted in an extra five posts of aguement in the best case scenario, and in the worst case a three way fight, or an omni patented pimp slap from zale.

most likely directed at me.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

But you're plan didn't give me the chance to have Aox struggle in it. You just wanted to post all your stuff and have the trap dissipate before Aox even noticed it was there.

Besides, I'd rather just have it enter the world as Aox's back is turned. Then I can have Aox turn around very slowly in a dramatic and stunned fashion to face the behemoth. I think it works a little better than having Aox facing the Monsterking, then suddenly become stunned, recover to find the Monsterking dead, a random god collapsed next to him AND a giant behemoth bearing down on him from omni knows where..

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Having my character do nothing however and simply sit there dazed for several minutes seems highly unrealistic and a waste of good plot devices.

S'all I'm saying here.

[Mik_Hael]

minute and a half.

[Mik_Hael]

The ultimate WTF moment.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

@First comment: Still, that's way longer than it should be for Aox to recover
@Second comment: I still prefer my way

[Mik_Hael]

sigh, going to take a bit longer, was almost done got distracted and hit controll z backtracked me to the first paragraph =.=